WRD Blog

November 9, 2026 Maren Case

Being a WRD Major: Views from Dara Drury and Barbara Riendeau

As a new graduate student in the WRD department, the most exciting thing I’ve learned
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November 4, 2026 Maren Case

Course Spotlight – WRD 327/532 Content Strategy

Are you curious about what collaboration with nonprofits looks like? Or how to generate written
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October 26, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

Course Spotlight – WRD 511 Composing Chicago: Rhetorics of Space and Place

The rhetoric of place allows us to explore how the physical environment itself makes arguments.
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June 8, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

Event Recap – 2026 MAWRD Exit Presentations

On Thursday, May 28th, five graduating students from the Master’s in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse
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June 5, 2026 Callie McNorton

Spring Speaker Series Recap: Dr. Ana Milena Ribero

In April, The WRD Department welcomed Dr. Ana Milena Ribero for our Speaker Series: Writing
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May 27, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

Reflections on the MA in WRD from Dylan Cabrera, winner of the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Each program in DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences gives an annual Outstanding
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May 20, 2026 Callie McNorton

Course Spotlight – WRD 321: Writing in the Legal Profession

The genre of legal writing is an intimidating one. You see it in pop culture
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May 19, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

Course Spotlight – WRD 360/LSP 275 Rhetoric of the Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Chicago is a city with a rich and complicated history, and this history still impacts us today.
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October 14, 2021 Kristen Vosberg

Course Spotlight: WRD 531 Digital Storytelling

Learn about AQ WRD course WRD 531 with Professor Lisa Dush.

October 13, 2021 Amanda Finn

Course Spotlight: WRD 340 Writing and Revising

Learn about undergraduate course WRD 340: Writing and Editing taught by Professor Julie Bokser.

For this faculty spotlight, we’ve given time to new instructor Dr. Michael Gallaway, a scholar with interests in medical rhetorics, discursive ecologies and oppression rhetorics.

September 30, 2021 Kristen Vosberg

Graduate Assistant Introduction

Meet new WRD graduate assistants and catch up with returning ones.

Being a WRD Major: Views from Dara Drury and Barbara Riendeau

Course Spotlight – WRD 327/532 Content Strategy

Course Spotlight – WRD 511 Composing Chicago: Rhetorics of Space and Place

Event Recap – 2026 MAWRD Exit Presentations

Spring Speaker Series Recap: Dr. Ana Milena Ribero

Reflections on the MA in WRD from Dylan Cabrera, winner of the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Course Spotlight – WRD 321: Writing in the Legal Profession

Course Spotlight – WRD 360/LSP 275 Rhetoric of the Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot of 1919

About Pi Epsilon Pi: Honors and Professional Society in Writing

Course in Progress: WRD 526 Grant & Proposal Writing

Event Recap: Writing and Rhetoric Across Boarders Speaker Series with Dr. Aja Y. Martinez

Course Spotlight – WRD 264: Language, Self, & Society

Course Spotlight: WRD 531 Digital Storytelling

Course Spotlight: WRD 340 Writing and Revising

Faculty Spotlight: Michael Gallaway

Graduate Assistant Introduction

Event Preview: Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders with Dr. Aja Y. Martinez

MAWRD Pathways & Career Outcomes: Teaching Concentration